JS Break - ashish9342/FreeCodeCamp GitHub Wiki
The break statement terminates the current loop, switch
, or label
statement and transfers program control to the statement following the terminated statement.
break;
If the break statement is used in a labeled statement, the syntax is as follows:
break labelName;
The following function has a break statement that terminates the while
loop when i is 3, and then returns the value 3 * x.
function testBreak(x) {
var i = 0;
while (i < 6) {
if (i == 3) {
break;
}
i += 1;
}
return i * x;
}
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In the following example, the counter is set up to count from 1 to 99; however, the break statement terminates the loop after 14 counts.
for (var i = 1; i < 100; i++) {
if (i == 15) {
break;
}
}
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